The videos of his car on Youtube were not posted by him, but are of his car. And a lot of people "in their 40s" couldn't work a smart phone if their life depend on it, 99% of my family included. Not so much that technology is brand new, but they weren't raised with it, and just aren't part of that generation. They don't need 8G of data to be able to get through their day like most teenager-25 year olds of today do.
I was mostly kidding.. your bro seems to know how to text? I hear what you're saying though. Either way, he got salty and that's what got him the boot.